Most will recall a spokesperson was appointed for the McCanns shortly after MM's disappearance. The spokesperson, Clarence Mitchell, was at one time a BBC journalist.
The advanatage of a professional spokesperson is that they can ensure the right messages are getting out into the public domain. It's not perfect but it's a huge help.
In JB's case pre and post trial the media had a field day. Whether you believe JB guilty or innocent how the hell does a 24 year old farmer deal with the media who simply want to sell maximum papers with minimum input?
Post trial the defence lawyers hung around long enough to see through the first failed appeal based on what it considered to be an unfair summing up by the trial judge. Thereafter the case has gone from pillar to post with all sorts of characters involved. Most well intentioned and honest. Some dishonest. And others incompetent.
- A variety of lawyers most of whom have been incompetent and negligent on a breathtaking scale
- Mike Tesko who once acted as JB's McKenzie friend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKenzie_friend- Convicted fraudster and bogus lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano
- Andrew Hunter former Tory MP
- CT/Trudi Benjamin with the disastrous 'Bake-Off' and graveside reading
- To coin a phrase from puglove 'the bird off her tits on sherry'
With no continuity over case management and all manner of people involved with the media is it surprising JB's case is a complete mess?!
